Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain last week decided to pin its jetliner hopes on the Comet. On the heels of a final report placing the blame for two Comet I crashes off Italy on metal fatigue, de Havilland announced that it will go ahead with construction of the Comet II and III. They will have such improvements as thicker skins, oval instead of rectangular windows, to correct the faulty design that caused the Comet I to explode in midair. De Havilland set no delivery dates, but the first plane will probably not be ready before...
...townsmen attacked some gownsmen. Once again the bell of St. Martin's rang, and the bell of St. Mary's answered. Inns and taverns were pillaged, books were torn to shreds, some of the university halls were fired. The situation grew so serious that King Edward III himself intervened, and the city was placed under interdict. But by that time, 60 scholars had already been killed. Relations between town and gown have never been entirely amicable since...
...four clavichord pieces played by Edward Dunham III, the last three were delightful. The first was dull but interesting as an historical curiosity, for it is the earliest extant keyboard music (dated c.1325). Dunham demonstrated that the clavichord can produce all the dynamic shades from very soft to very, very, very soft. He underlined the informality of the evening by puffing a pipe in time to his playing...
...North Dakota's Bill Langer cried: "If such a treaty had been in force among the nations of Europe at the time of the Revolutionary War, the U.S. would still belong to Great Britain." This seemed to prove that everybody except Langer has learned some lessons from George III. The vote: 82 to Langer...
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